The current protocol already has a perfectly clean "this has gone away forever, stop checking" result code, and it is being ignored. What will a new client or protocol do to fix that?

you now have 15 protocols

Apreche suggested that ActivityPub is text (json) only already so we can avoid the 19th protocol :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34805222

Give it a bit longer, and we'll just be able to say "927", and everyone will know what you mean.

But for now, https://xkcd.com/927/

That reminds me of the story where prisoners tell each other jokes by number:

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.humor/c/Pu-ZIoTMk7U

I propose a new protocol, xkcd://<comic nr>

Such as xkcd://927

I recognise the quote every time. But I do not plan on learning the individual numbers of any of the xkcd strips. Recognising the quotes is enough for me.

Nine-hundred and twenty seven.

(Un)fortunately for you, human memory and cognition is weird.

927.

So by the time you reach this sentence in comment, the number 900, which is Yoda's age in the original Star Wars, plus the number 27, which is 3 cubed, as well as the name of the "27-club", will have appeared three times if you count my previous comment.

That number, 927, should stick out in your brain as being the number for the XKCD strip about standards.

It's possible that the mnemonic, and the repetition is enough for that number to permanently lodge itself in your brain. Or not.

Bro is hacking brain memories via HN comments now :sweating: